scribe
Meanings
Plural: scribes
Noun
- French playwright (1791-1861)
- informal terms for journalists
- someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
- a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
- Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
- Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
- A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.ᵂ
- A journalist.
- A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
- A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
Verb
- score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
- To write.
- To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
- To record, as a scribe.
- To write or draw with a scribe.
- To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
- To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English scribe, from Old French scribe (“scribe”), from Late Latin usage of scrība (“secretary”) (used in the Vulgate Bible translation to render Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew סופר (“writer, scholar”)) from scrībere (“to write, draw, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy; orig. to scratch”), probably akin to scrobs (“a ditch, trench, grave”).
Synonyms
amanuensis, Augustin Eugene Scribe, copyist, penman, scratch awl, scribbler, scriber, scrivener, tabellion
Scrabble Score: 10
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